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“The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can’t handle.”
― Chasing Fireflies
― Chasing Fireflies
“Although he called himself a Christian, I had a hard time correlating his vicious gossip, bigoted expressions, and arrogant manner as such. I often thought if God’s heaven was filled with creatures like him, maybe that’s not where I wanted to end up.”
― Whistling Woman
― Whistling Woman
“But God is only a white cold eye, a quarter-moon poised above the smoke, blinking, blinking, as the city is gradually pounded to dust.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“If God can make a firefly’s butt light up like a star, then anything is possible. Anything.”
― Chasing Fireflies
― Chasing Fireflies
“They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish—expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other’s spaces liquidly. Making it look easy, the soul-mate thing. People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
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